[citation needed] After premiering Sutra in 2008, working around the world and collaborating with various artists (Dunas with María Pagés, Faun (both 2009)), he founded his own company in January 2010 called Eastman in Antwerp, resident at deSingel International Arts Campus.

[citation needed] In the spring of 2010, Cherkaoui won his first Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production for Babel(words) together with choreographer Damien Jalet and Antony Gormley.

[citation needed] In 2015, he directed his first full-length theatre production Pluto in Tokyo and was movement director for Hamlet (Lyndsey Turner) at the Barbican Centre in London.

[citation needed] He left the Royal Ballet of Flanders to become the artistic director of Le Grand Théâtre de Genève in Switzerland in 2022.

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The use of the body, movement, space and objects, his conceptual approach to dance, make every production by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui a scenic event whose language achieves a particular stylistic form, perfect and truly captivating.